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Leo Temory was one of just three contestants from The Amazing Race on the cast of The Challenge: USA. On Wednesday’s new episode, Leo was eliminated from the CBS reality series after being thrown into a Hall Brawl against Enzo Palumbo. Temory revealed that he was under the impression this season would not have that particular competition. Moreover, he was blindsided when he walked into the arena. “It’s definitely tough,” the TV star shared exclusively with TV Fanatic. The three-time Amazing Race star said that medics prevented him from returning to the arena after the elimination to say his goodbyes.…

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Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are on opposite sides of the globe for work right now, but rest assured, a source told Us Weekly this week, that Kardashian and Davidson are very much making their long distance relationship work in the most romantic of ways. The two aren’t just texting but are also exchanging love letters.“Kim and Pete are in constant communication,” the source said, admitting that the time difference between Los Angeles and Australia, where Davidson is filming his project Wizards!, does create hurdles. “Time zones and filming call times make talking difficult,” the source said. But Kardashian and…

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China’s cyberspace regulator said on Friday that it has cracked down on counterfeit investment platforms, as part of the country’s campaign to combat such telecom network crime.The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it has investigated and cracked down on some 42,000 counterfeit apps since the start of this year, and incorporated them into the national fraud-related database, according to a statement on its website.The regulator added it found multiple cases involving website spoofing as scammers created fraudulent investment platforms by mimicking some popular tech companies including JD Finance, the fintech arm of e-commerce giant JD.com.”App stores and other platforms…

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It may seem odd to try to make a racist transphobe a sympathetic character, but hey, that’s J.K. Rowling for you. The author’s latest book, The Ink Black Heart, is all about a content creator who is persecuted for being transphobic — a novel idea, considering Rowling’s history. The Ink Black Heart is part of Rowling’s crime series Cormoran Strike and is written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. In the book, YouTube cartoon creator Edie Ledwell is criticized for being racist, ableist, and transphobic in her work (per Rolling Stone). Soon enough, she’s doxxed with photos of her home spread online and receives…

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A start-up has developed data centre pods that can be submerged in the ocean to let the water naturally keep them cool. Cooling is normally very energy-intensive Technology 26 August 2022 By Jeremy Hsu A drawing of one of Subsea Cloud’s data centre podsSubsea Cloud An underwater data centre could start operating off the west coast of the US before the end of 2022. The project is an attempt to show the viability of using the ocean to provide cooling, which normally accounts for a large portion of data centre energy use. “By placing the data centres subsea, we eliminate…

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There can be only one! And it just might be Henry Cavill. Henry Cavill has been Chad Stahelski’s first choice to star in a new version of Highlander, and he just might get his wish.  For those who don’t know, a Highlander film is in the works, and right now, it’s in its very early stages. One of the biggest roadblocks the film has reached is Henry Cavill’s extremely busy filming schedule, but from what Stahelski had to say, it sounds like Cavill is on board.It makes sense that an action-packed franchise like Highlander would go to Stahelski. The director has worked on great…

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. At some point early on in the pandemic, I stopped being able to read sci-fi and fantasy. Something switched off in my brain and suddenly two of the genres I’ve loved all of my life became impenetrable. For a while I just read other kinds of books. Then I started trying SFF again — to no avail. I couldn’t connect. I hope that one day I’ll find joy in space operas and epic fantasy again. Until then, I’ve been embracing a different kind…

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Floribama Shore will not be returning to MTV. The cabler has announced it will not proceed with the reality series’s fifth season. However, Deadline notes that “the future of the series is being evaluated” by the network. Whether that means the show could end up at another outlet down the line, we don’t know, but for now, the series is over. Footage was shot at star Nilsa Prowant’s wedding last year, which was said to be used in a fifth season. TMZ reports that the series was set to return to filming earlier this year, but that it had been…

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Grass lawns and hiking trails are no problem for this robot, which learned to walk on them on the fly thanks to a machine learning algorithm Technology 26 August 2022 By Alex Wilkins A robot dog can learn to walk on unfamiliar and hard-to-master terrain, such as grass, bark and hiking trails, in just 20 minutes, thanks to a machine learning algorithm. Most autonomous robots have to be carefully programmed by humans or extensively tested in simulated scenarios before they can perform real-world tasks, such as walking up a rocky hill or a slippery slope – and when they encounter…

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Now, we aren’t saying you shouldn’t be shopping for these at Zara. (Heck, some of the items our editors would rather not buy might be your favourite Zara section, and that’s okay—we all have our preferences and opinions.) Truly, in this situation, there’s no right or wrong answer, because at the end of the day, you know we all have an unhealthy obsession with the brand, so who are we to judge? We just thought it would be interesting to find out what these knowledgeable editors steer clear of when it comes to shopping affordably at Zara.That said, we’re not in the way of…

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This is on top of Apple making many products that are inherently not user-upgradeable, sometimes in the name of potential performance gains or improved experiences. Things like soldered-down NAND chips, proprietary screws, and components that are only sold to Apple-authorized repair stores continue to limit how much customers and third-party repair shops can do on their own.As tech blog KnowTechie wrote this week, it can be hard for such repair shops to find certain MacBook components, resulting, at times, in full logic board replacements when a cheap chip fails and higher repair costs for consumers.Give Apple a Little CreditWe’ve detailed some of…

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Phoebe Bridgers, Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan, and Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst will appear in a new horror film from We’re All Going to the World’s Fair director Jane Schoenbrun, as The Hollywood Reporter and IndieWire report.Titled I Saw the TV Glow, the upcoming movie follows two teenagers—played by Justice Smith and Bridgette Lundy-Paine—as they obsess over a scary TV show and begin to question the difference between TV and reality.Bridgers’ involvement comes by way of her role in the band Sloppy Jane, which as The Hollywood Reporter points out, will be featured in the film along with the band King…

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A24 is partnering with filmmakers Max Eggers (The Lighthouse) and Sam Eggers (Olympia) — professionally known as The Eggers Brothers — to produce their directorial debut, the psychological horror film The Front Room.MORE: Interview: Me Time Director John Hamburg Talks Animal Scenes, Recruiting Mark WahlbergThe film will star Grammy Award-winning musician and actress Brandy Norwood, Olivier Award-winning actress Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of Macbeth), and Tony Award-winning actor Andrew Burnap (Snow White), with Neal Huff (Spotlight) also set to join the cast. The Front Room will be written by The Eggers Brother, with A24 producing alongside Lucan Toh, Babk Anvari, and…

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16 Aug 2022 Set off on an adventure to new worlds this week! This selection of new science fiction and fantasy books will surely please! Science Fiction fans should be excited about the latest from bestselling authors Bradford Bates & Michael Anderle, Beth Revis, Kit Rocha, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from John P. Logsdon, D. K. Holmberg, Tasha Suri, and more. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading! Fantasy Science Fiction Related grant scrolls_pure; if (shouldBeFixed && !isFixed) { header.addClass(“sticky”); isFixed = true; } else if (!shouldBeFixed &&…

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Netflix’s Resident Evil will not return for a second season. Deadline reported Friday that the streamer had canceled the zombie drama after just one season. The news comes around six weeks after its debut on the service. It kicked off with 72.7 million hours viewed, but didn’t grow much from that when it had a full week of release factored in. Netflix shows typically surge in their second week on the service because more days are accounted and word of mouth usually moves the needle. Resident Evil logged 73.3 million hours viewed in its second week. The reaction from critics…

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Bird flu has killed hundreds of wild black vultures at a Georgia sanctuary that houses more than 1,500 other animals. No other birds at Noah’s Ark have tested positive for or shown symptoms of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, sanctuary officials told news outlets. An outbreak of the virus has led to the deaths of 40 million chickens and turkeys and about 2,000 wild birds this year. The wild birds include more than 240 black vultures and nearly 220 bald eagles, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Even seals have died from it. Officials said they were told Saturday…

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Photography by Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated By Maha Syeda Date August 26, 2022 When Aheda Zanetti, a Lebanese-Australian fashion designer, created the burkini for Muslim women in 2004, she probably didn’t expect it to continue making waves nearly 20 years later—for better and for worse. While women around the world are still discovering this modest and stylish way to feel confident at the pool or beach, the swimwear is still stirring debate.  Here’s what you need to know about the burkini:  What is a burkini? If you keep up with fashion and the news, you’ve probably heard of…

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Apple Books app has stopped working for some people after they installed the iOS 15.5 update, as per user reports. People have complained that they were not able to open any books on the app. A reasonable chunk of people also reportedly pointed out that the app is crashing and their saved PDFs are gone on their iPad tablets as well. Apple released iOS 15.5 ahead of WWDC 2022 bringing new experiences to Apple Wallet and Podcasts apart from security fixes. It also released iPadOS 15.5 for eligible iPad users.As per a report by 9to5Mac and a bunch of reviews…

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Bam Margera just gave his first interview since completing a year-long treatment program for substance abuse. On a new episode of Steve-O’s Wild Ride, Margera spoke about his past few years and opened up about how his infatuation with HIM’s Ville Valo which led to him becoming an alcoholic.HIM and Bam Margera were heavily intertwined in the early 2000s, with Bam directing a number of HIM music videos and even adopting the Heartagram as part of his own brand. HIM and Valo were heavily featured on Bam’s MTV shows, but Margera and the band eventually had a falling out.“I am an…

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Warner Bros. films will no longer be available on HBO Max 45 days after their release in theaters. Instead, each film released will come to streaming on a “case-by-case basis.“Over the course of the pandemic, HBO Max won many subscribers by premiering movies like Dune and The Matrix Resurrections the same day they debuted in theaters, or by adding them to the service 45 days after the beginning of their theatrical run. That’s not the case now. Following Warner Bros. acquisition by Discovery, we’ve seen some pretty massive changes to the company, but also in HBO Max in particular. Those changes will continue.The merger between Warner Bros. and…

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NASA is sending its colossal Space Launch System into space for the first time on 29 August for the Artemis I mission around the moon. Watch the launch coverage here Space 26 August 2022 By Leah Crane Update: NASA missed the 29 August launch window due to a problem with one of SLS’s four engines. The next launch window is on 2 September. Full story here. The eyes of the world are on Cape Canaveral, Florida, where NASA is about to launch its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket into space for the very first time. SLS is the most powerful rocket…

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AMC is bringing another Anne Rice literary classic to the small screen in Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches. Based on the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, Season 1 will debut its first of eight episodes in late 2022 after the premiere of Interview with the Vampire. Mayfair Witches stars Alexandra Daddario, Jack Huston, Tongayi Chirisa, and Harry Hamlin. In it, neurosurgeon Dr. Rowan Fielding (Daddario) discovers she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations. AMC shared the…

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The recipe for mammalian life is simple: take an egg, add sperm and wait. But two new papers demonstrate that there’s another way. Under the right conditions, stem cells can divide and self-organize into an embryo on their own. In studies published in Cell and Nature this month, two groups report that they have grown synthetic mouse embryos for longer than ever before. The embryos grew for 8.5 days, long enough for them to develop distinct organs — a beating heart, a gut tube and even neural folds. The process is far from perfect. Just a tiny fraction of the cells develop these features…

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After Netflix’s beloved raunchy teen drama, Sex Education, returned for an expectedly colorful season 3, the fate of the series—and its characters—seemed in limbo. To recap: Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and Adam (Connor Swindells) have called off their romance, and it’s clear Adam needs some lengthy therapy sessions to process all the years he spent in the closet. That doesn’t mean this ship is without a sail, however. Eric seems willing to reconcile after his exe has had some time to heal. Meanwhile, Maeve (Emma Mackey) is USA-bound for a once-in-a-lifetime study abroad opportunity, after having just revealed her true feelings…

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OnePlus Nord 2T 5G was launched in India today as the company’s latest flagship smartphone. The new Nord-series phone comes as the successor to the OnePlus Nord 2 5G that debuted last year. Specifications-wise, the OnePlus Nord 2T 5 is quite similar to the OnePlus Nord 2 5G. It has a 90Hz AMOLED display, triple rear cameras, and a 4,500mAh battery. There are, however, upgrades. It is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 1300 SoC and offers 80W fast charging. The recently launch launched iQoo Neo 6 and Poco F4 5G also feature AMOLED displays and have triple rear camera…

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UPDATE Aug. 25, 2022: According to TMZ, prosecutors have decided not to move forward with criminal charges against singer Michelle Branch after her alleged assault on husband Patrick Carney of The Black Keys. The disposition shows the case was dismissed but did not specify why the case was dropped. The couple revealed their separation earlier this month amid Branch’s claims that Carney had been unfaithful in their marriage. She later filed for divorce.UPDATE: According to TMZ, Michelle Branch was arrested earlier this week after police were called to the home she shares with husband Patrick Carney. According to documents obtained…

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All of Marvel’s best villains have something in common: Relatability. We may not approve of their methods, but we often find ourselves agreeing with their goals. Case in point: The Kingpin from Daredevil, played by Vincent D’Onofrio. He once described his character in three words: “monster and child” and in our latest Marvel video we explore both aspects of Wilson Fisk’s personality in order to show that for all his many flaws, he may have been right about a lot of things.We examine the Kingpin’s evolution over the course of the series, and compare his upbringing to that of his arch-nemesis, Matt Murdock. We…

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While some of the stars you’re used to seeing on Hallmark have signed deals with Great American Family, the execs are instead focusing on the talent pool they do have, noting they’ve also kept a lot of their talent under option. Among the stars viewers have become used to seeing in Hallmark rom-coms and Christmas movies that have signed deals with Great American Family are Trevor Donovan, Danica McKellar, Jen Lilley, and Candace Cameron Bure. Meanwhile, stars including Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott, Holly Robinson Peete, and Jonathan Bennett have signed deals with Hallmark Media (formerly Crown Media). “We’re looking for…

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